SAS Viya

SAS Viya runs locally from a container image in an OCI registry such as Docker Hub or GitHub Container Registry: ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0. It speaks MCP over stdio, so the client starts it as a program and talks to it through standard input and output. It needs Docker or another OCI container runtime; started with docker run — the usual command is docker run -i --rm -e VIYA_ENDPOINT -e SSL_VERIFY -e CLIENT_ID -e COMPUTE_CONTEXT_NAME -e MCP_TIERS -e MCP_READ_ONLY -e MCP_APPS -e MCP_STATELESS_HTTP -e VIYA_CLIENT_TIMEOUT ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0. It reads these environment variables: VIYA_ENDPOINT (required), SSL_VERIFY, CLIENT_ID, COMPUTE_CONTEXT_NAME, MCP_TIERS, MCP_READ_ONLY, MCP_APPS, MCP_STATELESS_HTTP and VIYA_CLIENT_TIMEOUT; set them in the client's configuration for this server. Required arguments: -v.

In the mcpServers JSON format that many desktop and editor MCP clients read, the entry looks like this (placeholders in angle brackets):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sas-mcp-server": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "VIYA_ENDPOINT",
        "-e",
        "SSL_VERIFY",
        "-e",
        "CLIENT_ID",
        "-e",
        "COMPUTE_CONTEXT_NAME",
        "-e",
        "MCP_TIERS",
        "-e",
        "MCP_READ_ONLY",
        "-e",
        "MCP_APPS",
        "-e",
        "MCP_STATELESS_HTTP",
        "-e",
        "VIYA_CLIENT_TIMEOUT",
        "ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "VIYA_ENDPOINT": "<value>",
        "SSL_VERIFY": "<value>",
        "CLIENT_ID": "<value>",
        "COMPUTE_CONTEXT_NAME": "<value>",
        "MCP_TIERS": "<value>",
        "MCP_READ_ONLY": "<value>",
        "MCP_APPS": "<value>",
        "MCP_STATELESS_HTTP": "<value>",
        "VIYA_CLIENT_TIMEOUT": "<value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Derived from the registry entry, not tested here. What the server does, and on what terms, is set by its publisher; check its repository or website before giving it access to your accounts or files. How to add an MCP server to an assistant · Before you connect